Endless bow for piano-violins.



A. ZOLLINGER. ENDLESS BOW FOR PIANO VIOLINS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.24.1908. 9181637.

Patented Apr. 20, 1909.

fiddammw@ UNITED STATES lEkEENT OFFICE.

A'DALBERT ZOLLINGER, OF LEIPZIG-EUTRITZSOH, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR- TO THEFIRM OF POPPER & COMPANY, OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

ENDLESS BOW FOR PIANO-VIOLINS.

To all whom it may concern:

To obviate this disadvantage the inven- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 2%, 1908.

substantially as described.

Figure l is a perspective elevation and Be it known that I, ADALinia'rZOLL'INGER, Fig. 2 a side View of ajunction with the a subject of theKing of Saxony, residing I horse-hairs passing around the loopholder orat Leipzig-Eut-ritzsch, in Germany, hayel stretching member.

.5 inrented a certain new and useful Endless l In the construction shownthe horse-hairs Bow for Piano-Violins, of which the foll (.1. and (5 areconnected. together at their ad- 40 lowing is a specification. jacentends and formed into loops at the This invention relates to an endlessbow points of junction 6, and the loop holder or for piano-violins. jstretching members (Z, which is of wood or Endless, traveling horse-hairbows for 1 other suitable material, is inserted into said mechanicallyoperated musical stringed inloops. The said holder or stretching memberstruinents hare been composed of parallel (Z covers the junction andcompels the hairs groups of hairs so arranged relatively to at saidjunction to lie in one plane so that each other that the junctions ofthe hairs during the movement of the how, i. 0. during are at differentparts of the bow. By this the playing of the instrument, the contactmeans the formation of a rough transverse is as smooth and free fromscraping as line is avoided, and the arrangement dewhen an ordinary bowis used. scrihedis much superior to the arrangement j lVhat I claim asmy invention and desire of all the junctions side by side, but a highlyto secure by Letters Patent of the United trained ear is neverthelesscapable of detect- States is ing the presence of the junctions, morepar- 1X11 endless bow for piano-violins, com ticularly if the bow isthin and the soundprising a band consisting of a series of board ishighly convex, so that when the horse-hairs the adjacent ends of whichare horse-hair pressed against the string'the 1 connected together andformed into loops lower group of hairs yields and allows the j at thepoints of junction and a loop holder string to slightly extend into thejunction. j or stretching member inserted in said loops, 6

tion comprises a loopholder or stretching member to be placed at thejunction of the hairs and arranged so that perfectly flat contactsurfaces are produced. A junction of this kind, with a loop holder orstretching member is shown in the annexed drawing, in which In witnesswhereof I have signed this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

ADALBERT ZOLLING FJR.

lVitnesses I-IERM. SACK, RUDOLPH FRICKE.

